"To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing. in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." Genesis 8:16 "When a woman is in labor, she has pain, because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world." John 16:21. "A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth." 12:1-2. I give you these Bible verses not to scare you, but to help you with your child labor pain. Eve's childbirth pain was increased after she committed the original sin, which was to partake of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, which was what God told her not to do. And so, Eve had horrible labor pain. But imagine how relieved Eve was after it was over. Also in the book of Revelation, we see that there is a return to Eden. We have all sinned, like Eve. Therefore we all take the punishment of pain. But because there was a Savior, our pain comes to an end when the labor is finished. Like Eve, we are all satisfied when it's over, and we have a little person to love afterwards. Do you realize there are approximately 7.7 billion people on the planet today? That's a lot of labor pains. But the hope is that every last baby will be delivered in more ways than one. Not only will they be delivered by their moms, but also by God, because there was a reason and a purpose for pain, and that is what you get when it's over.